- Glaciers and ice sheets hold about 69 percent of the world’s freshwater.
- Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
- Akousticophobia is the fear of noises.
- Franklin Mars invented the Snickers Bar in 1930.
- The shell is 12% of an eggs weight.
- Early sunscreens included ingredients like rice bran oil, iron, clay, and tar.
- There are 2.5 million times more ants on earth than people (20 quadrillion of them).
- The 3 most common languages in the world are Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English.
- A cheetahs top speed is 114kph (70mph).
- Orienteering originated from Sweden.
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